jiě
elder sister
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 57.1200% of movies
432nd most common character in movies
830th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+59D0 |
Shuowen | “姐,蜀謂母曰姐,淮南謂之社。从女,且聲。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

